There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.